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How Does Diabetes Affect Women: Symptoms, Effects, and Risks

How does diabetes affect women? Physiologically, many metabolic diseases affect women differently than men. Photo/freepik.

JAKARTA – How does diabetes affect women? Physiologically, many metabolic diseases affect women differently than men. From symptoms to effects.

Level pra-diabetes Even recently it has been increasing and there is no rule who is more susceptible to this metabolic disease, both men and women. However, there is a difference, how it affects the female body.

Physiological differences sometimes lead to differences in symptoms and effects.

As for the symptoms diabetes in women, such as urine infections, sexual dysfunction, weight loss, blurred vision, nausea to reduce feeling in the hands and feet.

How Does Diabetes Affect Women?

Reported by India.com on Sunday (20/8/2023), diabetes increases the risk of heart disease by about four times in women, but only about two times in men. In fact, about two-thirds of women with diabetes die from cardiovascular disease and they die younger than women without diabetes.

Diabetic women also have a greater risk of developing heart disease after menopause than those without diabetes because the disease appears to cancel out the protective effect of estrogen on the hearts of women before menopause.

Women with diabetes have lower levels of good high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and higher levels of triglycerides, or other fats, in the blood.

Urinary tract infections and vaginal yeast infections are more common in women with diabetes. Women are also at increased risk of other diabetes-related complications such as blindness, kidney disease and depression.

2023-08-20 17:15:07
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